After traveling to dozens of cities, I’ve developed a curiosity for the names of various city bike shares. If you’re not familiar with bike shares, they are public bicycle rental programs that allow you to pick up a bike from one station and return it to another. When I lived in New York, I had … Continue reading Good and Boring Bike Share Names
I haven’t owned a car for five years, since I was 20 years old and lived in a small town in Vermont. My foray into car-free life began when I moved to New York City. I loved how active my everyday life became as I swapped driving for walking and biking. Every excursion out of … Continue reading How I Live Without a Car In The US (And Why I’ll Never Own a Car Again)
I’ve lived car-free for five years. My entire 20s I've lived without a car. The first three years, I lived in New York. Yet, over the last two, as I've traveled around the world, I've survived in some of the most car-dependent places in the world. I’ve seen the much of the best of public … Continue reading 26 Hidden Costs of Cars: How Car-Dependency Hurts Your Wallet, Your Health, And The Planet
Thanks to The United States’ combination of lackluster train infrastructure and miserable flying experience, there often simply aren’t great choices to get places. Is the Greyhound bus our savior? No, absolutely not. Yet, despite the Greyhound’s reputation as as a last resort option, I’ve taken it several times (not as a last resort!) over the … Continue reading My 16 Tips to Thrive on The Greyhound Bus (Yes, Thrive)
My girlfriend and I took the Capital Limited Amtrak in a Roomette overnight from Pittsburgh to Chicago. This train began in Washington D.C, and we hopped on at midnight eastern time in Pittsburgh and got to Chicago around 8:30 central time. This article covers my full breakdown from our experience so that you know everything … Continue reading My Amtrak Roomette Review: Overnight From Pittsburgh to Chicago
The United States finally has high-speed rail! Well, sort of, kind of, not really. It goes about half the speed of the bullet trains in other regions of the world. But I’ll take it. It’s a start. In fact, I went drastically out of my to test it out. In January 2024, My girlfriend and … Continue reading Brightline Train Florida Review: Universal Studios to Fort Lauderdale